If the scope of your role is bigger than the three days per week you are paid for, you need to speak with your boss, writes Dr Kirstin Ferguson.
I work in a part-time office role three days per week. I love the work I do, and I am eager to help my colleagues whenever I am there. Unfortunately, the people I work with, including my boss, seem to forget that I don’t work in the office every day. They will often ask me to do something on a day when I will not be there. It is then left to me to apologise and explain I can’t do it when they have asked as I won’t be in the office.
In the first instance, let your boss know how much you love working in the role and explain how there appears to be some ‘confusion’ about which days you work, since you are often left to explain why you can’t complete a task in the timeframe they might want. Seek your bosses’ advice on how everyone can be more aware of your part-time schedule so you don’t have to keep explaining and apologising.
It doesn’t sound like your new boss is going to hear any feedback you have to offer. If they want to change everything, without understanding the background, it sounds like they are determined to create an entirely new workplace culture too. Whether that is the right decision from a business perspective is impossible for me to know - sometimes teams do need rebuilding from the ground up - but what I do know is that the approach your boss has taken will be counter-productive.
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